this print enriches any space—from quiet studies to public galleries—with its serene and contemplative beauty
maintaining the sharpness and elegance of the original map
It's an ideal birthday or Christmas gift for a keen sailor or walker
portraying a coastal lowland region where dikes
It shows the county as a patchwork of ancient hundreds and market towns rather than the industrial conurbation Birmingham and Coventry would become within a generation
Old Map of County Fermanagh in 1685 by William Petty - Enniskillen, Castle Coole, Crom Estate, Florence Court, Lough Erne Berwick-upon-Tweed this print enriches any space—fromBy the time Sir William Petty's Irish county maps reached print in 1685, the fieldwork behind them was already three decades old. Petty had directed the Down Survey of the 1650s, an extraordinarily ambitious effort to measure the forfeited lands of Ireland parish by parish so that Cromwell's soldiers and creditors could be paid in acreage rather than coin. His heirs later gathered the surviving county drawings into the atlas Hiberniae Delineatio, and